World Health Assembly Listening Session

Sign Up to Make a Comment

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—charged with leading the U.S. delegation to the 72nd World Health Assembly (WHA)—will hold an informal Stakeholder Listening Session on Monday, May 6, 10:00 – 11:30 AM, in the HHS Hubert H. Humphrey Building Auditorium located at 200 Independence Ave, SW, Washington, DC.

To sign-up for the specific WHA agenda items you wish to comment on during the session, please take this short survey by 5pm EST, Thursday, May 2. All comments during the session will be limited to three minutes per agenda item, subject to the volume of requests received, to allow for as much feedback as possible. At the beginning of each item, the names of those who submitted this survey will be announced, and they can make their way to the microphone to deliver their comments.

We welcome and encourage participants to send their written comment of any length ahead of the session to oga.rsvp@hhs.gov. Note that RSVPs (to the same email address) for attending this event are required by April 26th due to security restrictions for entry into the HHS building. There will not be a readout or record of the session afterward.

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1.Please indicate below if you wish to speak to any World Health Assembly agenda item for Committee A during the upcoming Listening Session.

Please note that time will be limited to no more than 3 minutes per speaker on any given agenda item.

11.1 Proposed programme budget 2020–2021

11.2 Public health preparedness and response (includes three sub items: Report of the IOAC for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme; WHO’s work in health emergencies; and Implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005))

11.8 Follow-up to the high-level meetings of the United Nations General Assembly on health-related issues (includes Antimicrobial resistance; Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases; and Ending tuberculosis)

12.1 Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework for the sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits

12.2 Member State mechanism on substandard and falsified medical products

17.4 Appointment of representatives to the WHO Staff Pension Committee

17.5 Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

18.1 WHO reform processes, including the transformation agenda, and implementation of United Nations development system reform

18.2 Evaluation of the election of the Director-General of the World Health Organization

18.3 Multilingualism

18.4 Agreements with intergovernmental organizations [if any]

19. Collaboration within the United Nations system and with other intergovernmental organizations

Other (please specify)

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3.Due to time constraints, all comments on Matters for Information, including Progress Reports (WHA72 Agenda Item 20, including all sub-items) must be submitted in writing this year. We will NOT address these during the Listening Session on May 6, 2019. Please indicate your intent to submit comments below, including the specific report(s). Please submit final written remarks to OGA.RSVP@hhs.gov. Remarks submitted through SurveyMonkey will not be accepted.

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4.Please enter the name and affiliation of the speaker during the Listening Session. This name will be announced under the selected agenda items and they will make their way to the microphone to deliver remarks.

While not required, we encourage written remarks to be submitted ahead of time to OGA.RSVP@hhs.gov.